Vehicle registration - a short question

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by reed303

AirCare's web site has this to say:

Thanks. Perfect answer.

Having automotive issues split up among multiple entities (DMV-by-county, DL and AirCare) is... confusing.

[Timmyy]

Originally Posted by Quietude

Thanks. Perfect answer.

Having automotive issues split up among multiple entities (DMV-by-county, DL and AirCare) is... confusing.

I agree. Even though California's DMV was always insanely busy it was still more convenient because it was consolidated. I used to have to plan a day for a DMV visit in California.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by Timmyy

I agree. Even though California's DMV was always insanely busy it was still more convenient because it was consolidated. I used to have to plan a day for a DMV visit in California.

Oh, yeah. I think I've told the story of our visit to CT DMV, at the time of a stateworker protest slowdown and with new neighbors telling us it was 'orribly slow and time consuming.

Two new DLs, two vehicles re-registered (with a quick run down the street for an emissions check)... just over an hour. Registering my specialty car took two hours down at the main office, including some extensive inspections. (It took almost four months in CA.)

I don't quite understand why CO needs multiplied entities to handle what is essentially one service, but I wouldn't mind if they were better... coordinated. I should not have had trouble finding the information above, but searches kept taking me to (the wrong county) DMV and useless summary pages. Oh, well.

Situation with this fracking, nerve-wracking, mind-sacking car purchase almost done.

[emm74]

Originally Posted by Quietude

Having automotive issues split up among multiple entities (DMV-by-county, DL and AirCare) is... confusing.

Eh. It's not really that big a deal IMO. The DMV/Registry has never been the one to do inspections and emissions testing anywhere I've lived, you always had to go somewhere else for that.

And since I've never gotten or renewed a license at the same time as registering a car, it was always separate trips, so not that big a deal to me if it's going to different locations for the different functions.

It was admittedly easier in MA when buying a car, where many dealers were set up to register the car and issue plates, but for private sales and smaller dealers, you had to do the leg work yourself, like here.

[Quietude]

Originally Posted by emm74

Eh. It's not really that big a deal IMO.

...once you know it all. As with so many things here.

i've lived places where public services (to use the term very broadly) are streamlined and efficient and have good information sources. I've lived places where services are quirky and bent (often for historical reasons)... and have good information sources. I've never before encountered any place where most services are a bit tangled and murky... and stubbornly maintain closed-loop, "find it only if you know where it is" information sources. (And natives who go, "Oh, you didn't know that? I've known it forever.")

CO just seems to thrive on this sort of impenetrability, kind of like Bolinas on a statewide scale.